Montgomery — who recurred on This Is Us last season — joins an ensemble that includes Freema Agyeman (Sense8, Doctor Who) and Anupam Kher (Sense8).

In other pilot casting news, per Deadline:

* Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo) will headline the CBS legal drama Main Justice, which is inspired by the life and work of Eric Holder, the first African-American Attorney General of the United States.

* Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) will co-star in Fox’s vampire drama The Passage as Dr. Lila Kyle, a surgeon and the ex-­wife of Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s character.

* Romany Malco (Weeds) has joined the ABC ensemble drama A Million Little Things, about a group of friends who get just the wake-up call they need to start living when one of them unexpectedly dies. Malco will play a depressed but very successful commercial director.